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Zusatztext At last! Since the publication in 2002 of the groundbreaking anthology! Artificial Parts! Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU Press)! scholarship has boomed at the intersection of disability studies and the history of technology. This new collection from Bloomsbury brings readers up to date with developments in the field! revising familiar historical throughlines with an original "design model of disability." Rather than situate disability outside modernism! with its predilection for clean lines and average bodies! the authors in Making Disability Modern rethink "dismodern" design and the modern ambitions of disabled designers themselves. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Guffey is Professor of Art and Design History and directs the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory at the State University of New York, Purchase College, USA. She is co-editor of Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury, 2020) and author of Designing Disability (Bloomsbury, 2018), Posters: A Global History (2015) and Retro: The Culture of Revival (2013). She is Founding Editor of Design and Culture and has also published essays in a number of popular publications, including The New York Times and The Nation . Klappentext Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities, such as walking sticks, wheelchairs, and prosthetic limbs - and consider the active role that makers, users and designers take to reshape the material environment into a usable world. But it also aims to make clear that definitions of disability-and ability-are often shaped by design. Making Disability Modern examines how designed things contribute to the meaning of ability and disability in a variety of historical and modern contexts, from homes, offices, and schools to the realm of national and international politics. Zusammenfassung Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day! and in homes! offices! and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities! such as walking sticks! wheelchairs! and prosthetic limbs - and consider the active role that makers! users and designers take to reshape the material environment into a usable world. But it also aims to make clear that definitions of disability-and ability-are often shaped by design. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Design History through Disability, Rethinking Disability through Design Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Section I: Designers and Users From Craft to Industry Introduction 1. The Material Culture of Gout in Early America, Nicole Belolan (Rutgers University, USA) 2. Walking Cane Style and Medicalized Mobility, Cara Kiernan Fallon (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 3. Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal, Caroline Lieffers (Yale University, USA) 4. Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850-1950, Aparna Nair (University of Oklahoma, USA) Section II: Disability and World-Making in the Twentieth Century
